"Cheers. A lot of tips! Also visit my blog post :: help me get pregnant"
I rarely laugh so much like when I read that epic, just EPIC (I know someone that wants to help!). THE BEST NAMES FROM SPAMBOTS:
1 place - EdwinaMeu (meu means mine in portugese :P XD). 2 place - JansenOS (Jan Jansen's Operative system, cuz' OS X is DAMN too mainstream). 3 place - RayB (and I call the SpamBattys in memory of Roy Batty from Blade Runner).
1 place - EdwinaMeu (meu means mine in portugese :P XD). 2 place - JansenOS (Jan Jansen's Operative system, cuz' OS X is DAMN too mainstream). 3 place - RayB (and I call the SpamBattys in memory of Roy Batty from Blade Runner).
Damn, these spambots are tricky... every one of those are totally believable names for a Baldur's Gate fan on this forum
Jansen Operating System is particularly clever. Imagine if it was real? Apple would be out of business in seconds once their competitor (Turnip) starts releasing products.
Damn, these spambots are tricky... every one of those are totally believable names for a Baldur's Gate fan on this forum
Jansen Operating System is particularly clever. Imagine if it was real? Apple would be out of business in seconds once their competitor (Turnip) starts releasing products.
Sounds like the plan is.. Loose weight to get back with ex, who I'm spying on, only I'm quite self conscious about my age as she's now dating younger guys.. But! there is this complete stranger on the internet who wants help getting pregnant, perhaps with my low self esteem issues and her extreme desperation, we could be a match made in heaven?
That's because there's not a specific profile in the link: /profile links an user to their own profile page by default, where /profile/345465/xyx leads to a specific user, instead.
You guys do not see most of the spambots we get. Once we had a spambot that created a 14 pages thread. I actually saved that one somewhere... And another that created a thread that was answered by another spambot and they went back and forth spamming each other until we banished both of them
Being an administrator to various message boards, my hatred towards spam bots is about equal to my hatred toward those who make virus and maleware programs.
Those messages raise the question, of course, if spambots are intelligent beings. Do they try to communicate with us? Do they want to tell us something? Do they know our deepest fears and most secret wishes?
Do they want to help us? Shouldn't we be grateful for their efforts to make our lives more comfortable? Do they want to befriend us?
The bravest spambot that ever was brought; — Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; — It was brought to the wall of Ben.
Nay, not with cannon or battle shot, — With sword or braver pen; Nay, not with eloquent word or thought, — It was brought to the wall of Ben.
I want to say something about spambots , and I don't want to open a new topic :
There's a so-say solution for these kind of problems , I guess you also know , the introductory phase for new members that they need to have their "some number" of posts been confirmed first , before they can get to be a forum member. Now , they can be in a seperate section , so , also if anyone wishes to see ( or only members ) they can click and view candidates' posts too. It should be reminded for candidates that they should not 'answer' any posts , but rather state their opinion directly and independently of other involvers that are already members there , to ease up the talking routine , because their first 5 or some number of posts will not be visible through normal viewing.
When a problem remains , it means it remains. Banning accounts are not solving this. And teasing with them could be what I personally like too , but when it comes to THIS forum , they are not letting to do that. That's understandable , but not to overcome this , is not ; may it be or not be a radical way.
This is not a suggestion because , as I stated you , I guess close to %100 you already have thought about this. Besides there should be a topic around somewhere that is very long about it. This is just a reminding upon a time-wasting intention , as I am not interested in involving forum matters , while also hoping to start a new discussion.
I think I write a lot. Sir-write-a-lot. Sir-know-a-lot. Sir-arrogant-a-lot...
@old_jolly2 Unfortunately Vanilla forums don't have that "candidates" feature, as far as I know, and even if it might be useful against spambots I have few hopes that it will be implemented by Vanilla developers (not Beamdog) in the near future.
The only thing we can do is to ban an account that has revealed to be a spambot one, we also have a spamfilter that is updated with more elements when we have them, and a spamqueue based on the spamfilter, but that's it. We can't do much more with our current tools but we try our best.
Of course real users here can help us by tagging moderators when they spot a spambot, this can be useful to shorten the duration a spam post is shown, in the case no one of us has spotted it first.
Anyway: spambots will always come so the only thing we can do as moderators is to watch the forum as much as we can.
@meagloth: I'll delete your pic as I've seen that it is still there. (maybe you've not read my previous post, but still it's better to avoid to help spambots in any way)
Feel free to edit your post adding a brief description of what you wanted to show, if you like, but as I said it's better to avoid explicit screenshots like that one, as everyone here can see that advertising, even if that spambot was banned.
@meagloth unfortunately after the last forum manteinance we all become unable to delete thumbnails after posting. Even moderators are unable to delete them... The only thing I can do in your case is to delete the whole post.
Anyway: like that is ok, just remember everyone to delete the thumbnail after clicking "insert image" and before posting.
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THE BEST NAMES FROM SPAMBOTS:
1 place - EdwinaMeu (meu means mine in portugese :P XD).
2 place - JansenOS (Jan Jansen's Operative system, cuz' OS X is DAMN too mainstream).
3 place - RayB (and I call the SpamBattys in memory of Roy Batty from Blade Runner).
Jansen Operating System is particularly clever. Imagine if it was real? Apple would be out of business in seconds once their competitor (Turnip) starts releasing products.
Thanks, Plenty of material!
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O,oLoose weight to get back with ex, who I'm spying on, only I'm quite self conscious about my age as she's now dating younger guys.. But! there is this complete stranger on the internet who wants help getting pregnant, perhaps with my low self esteem issues and her extreme desperation, we could be a match made in heaven?
Here is my blog :: http://forum.baldursgate.com/profile
The spambots are stealing my identity!
...or perhaps I am a spamcylon all along and did not know it?
And it's about the currently logged in user.
The bravest spambot ever
The bravest spambot that ever was brought;
— Shall I tell you where and when?
On the maps of the world you will find it not;
— It was brought to the wall of Ben.
Nay, not with cannon or battle shot,
— With sword or braver pen;
Nay, not with eloquent word or thought,
— It was brought to the wall of Ben.
Anyway, In these days I've seen worse spambots posts, but I keep forgetting this thread! XP
There's a so-say solution for these kind of problems , I guess you also know , the introductory phase for new members that they need to have their "some number" of posts been confirmed first , before they can get to be a forum member. Now , they can be in a seperate section , so , also if anyone wishes to see ( or only members ) they can click and view candidates' posts too. It should be reminded for candidates that they should not 'answer' any posts , but rather state their opinion directly and independently of other involvers that are already members there , to ease up the talking routine , because their first 5 or some number of posts will not be visible through normal viewing.
When a problem remains , it means it remains. Banning accounts are not solving this. And teasing with them could be what I personally like too , but when it comes to THIS forum , they are not letting to do that.
That's understandable , but not to overcome this , is not ; may it be or not be a radical way.
This is not a suggestion because , as I stated you , I guess close to %100 you already have thought about this. Besides there should be a topic around somewhere that is very long about it. This is just a reminding upon a time-wasting intention , as I am not interested in involving forum matters , while also hoping to start a new discussion.
I think I write a lot. Sir-write-a-lot. Sir-know-a-lot. Sir-arrogant-a-lot...
The only thing we can do is to ban an account that has revealed to be a spambot one, we also have a spamfilter that is updated with more elements when we have them, and a spamqueue based on the spamfilter, but that's it.
We can't do much more with our current tools but we try our best.
Of course real users here can help us by tagging moderators when they spot a spambot, this can be useful to shorten the duration a spam post is shown, in the case no one of us has spotted it first.
Anyway: spambots will always come so the only thing we can do as moderators is to watch the forum as much as we can.
@meagloth: I'll delete your pic as I've seen that it is still there. (maybe you've not read my previous post, but still it's better to avoid to help spambots in any way)
Feel free to edit your post adding a brief description of what you wanted to show, if you like, but as I said it's better to avoid explicit screenshots like that one, as everyone here can see that advertising, even if that spambot was banned.
Luckily we are a good squad, so when one is AFK another is watching.
Anyway, is this ok instead?
Anyway: like that is ok, just remember everyone to delete the thumbnail after clicking "insert image" and before posting.